CANDT MAKIXG. IIokscIioIiI Sweets, nnil How to lllaks Til em. Cbkam Cvsdt. Two cups white su gar ; half cup water ; one tablespoonful vinegar ; half tea'-poon cream tartar ; fla vor to taste. Molasses Candy. One quart of mo lasses ; piece of bnttor size of an egg ; stew over a quick firo until the olastwst will harden on being dropped into cold vater; pour in buttered diahes and pull ' while hot. Tafft. One cap molasses, one cup of sugar, half cnp water, a piece of batter the size of a hickory ntit. If brittle when, dropped in water, pour ont on large plates ; stretch out to the thinnest while warm . when perfectly co!d break into squares. JPuocolatb Caraukla. One pint new milk; one cnko chocolate (Jib.); one cup and a half sugar (white). Try thin on a buttered plate, as it will not crisp . in water, and when done pour out on bnttered pans and mark off in squares with a knife as it cools, nnd then it will easily break when cold. They aro very excellent. Vineoab Candy. Ono cup of whi...

CLOTHES AXD TIILXGS. Bonkxt and Hat Tbimminos. As a general rule, the hats are, this seasoD, all trimmed directly at the back and front with immense bonqnets of. flow era, and it is qui to the exception to see them trimmed at the side. There is a conspicuous absence of drapery, which waa formerly so elaborate ; and the vines, instead of trailing: down the back of the hats, are brought ronnd the front and over the crown. Another fea ture in vinos is that they are laden down with flowers in bunches, and do not ta per off, as was the case, last " year. Beaded hats and beaded bonnets seem to le generally in favor, this spring, and the absence of strings is notieeable. In the place of large roses and other large flowers, we are to have fine flow ers, such as daisies, violets, lilies of the valley and mignonette. Ornaments are not bo much in favor as last year, and are used more for children and misses than for laJies. Trominent among the new colors which attract so much atten tion is the...

CURIOUS AXD SCIENTIFIC. T-MTERATT7B! OF THE MedITERBA- KEan. Between the dopth-1 of one and a quarter and two miles the tempera ture of the Mediterranean is every where conotant, at only three degrees above freezing point. SrvouiiAR Eipekimbxt. From a se ries of very curious experiments just made, it appears that the high notes of a violin htcwg are accompanied with suffi cient oononssion to explode iodide of nitrogen on paper affixed to it. The sound-waves generated by the explosion of tbe merest triflo of nitro-glyoerine are also, it is found, capable of explod ing an equal quantity of iodide of ni tn?ea at a difctanoe of eight and a half feet. Tub Earth's Aoe. Dr. Ilerman J. Klein hns just published, at Cologne, a somewhat carious inquiry concerning the age of the earth, in which he se verely criticizes the attempts of the ge ologiHts to compute the length of time required for certain formations. Thus Btddle calculates the age of the Missis sippi Delta, from the amount of the jre...

ITOLS FliOll . THE GRANGES. A Ohasom Strijuss ojf Cot-feb. The New Hartford grange, of Pike county, Mo., has resolved not to buy coffee on and after the first day of April, nnless the usual high price of coffee ia re duced to twenty-five oents per pound, provided a majority of the grangta con cur therein. Two other granges are recorded as "concurring." After Scbooi. Ootcebs and School Bock Monopolies. The Clark county (I nd.) Council has resolved " That the offioe of oonnty Bnperinten lent of schools is useless, and does not ad vance the interests of common school eduoation ; " also, "That the school book monopoly is insufferable, and the greatest swindle perpetrated on our people." It recommends "the immedi ate establishment of state publishing house where books can be had at rea sonable cost." Avoid Intebnaii Discobds. A Mich igan Patrons urges brethren to be " Blind to all opinions in discord with the general wishes of the grange." He adds : " We are strong enough to meet and hav...

1 THROCKMORTON'S GHOST. How at Woman t Hrca With Her .Destroyer. The trial of Miss Eliza Godwin, who was reoently brought before the oonrts in Iionisville upon a writ de lunaiico inquirendo, and discharged, develop"! a tram of circumstances which not only outdo the creations of the novelist and romancer, bnt can only find their paral lel in the gloomy and grim Nemesis of Grecian mythology. Miss Eliza God -win is a member of a respectable fami ly, a well-educated and cultivated lady, who, when a mere school-girl, twenty four years ago. made the acquaintance of Maj. John Throckmorton, an accom plished and fascinating man of the world, then twenty yeats her senior. His influence upon her amounted to an infatuation which she could not control. She was confiding and inexperienced, like most school -girls of idealistio ten dencies, and she very soon engaged her self in marriage to him. When be had secured this advantage, he ruined and then abandoned her, but the shadow of the darkness int...